Voyager 1 is about to reach one light day from Earth.
By 15 November 2026, after nearly 50 years in space, it will be about 25.9 billion km away, meaning a radio signal from Earth will take a full 24 hours to reach it.
JWST dropped a new image of Apep, a rare triple star system.
Webb’s mid-infrared view shows four spiraling dust shells around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars and confirms a third star bound to them. Earlier telescopes saw only one.
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New JWST images of Saturn.
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Voyager 1 is about to reach one light day from Earth.
By 15 November 2026, after nearly 50 years in space, it will be about 25.9 billion km away, meaning a radio signal from Earth will take a full 24 hours to reach it.
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Rare red lightning seen from the ISS over Mexico and the U.S.
📸: NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers
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JWST dropped a new image of Apep, a rare triple star system.
Webb’s mid-infrared view shows four spiraling dust shells around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars and confirms a third star bound to them. Earlier telescopes saw only one.
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